Everyone watching Thursday’s testimony from FBI Director James Comey can agree on two things: It will continue to be parsed for a long while and Arizona Sen. John McCain’s questions were pretty confusing.

Even McCain acknowledged he missed the mark with his remarks and basically blamed it on the Diamondbacks.

McCain to Comey: “In the case of Hillary Clinton, you made the statement that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to bring a suit against her although it had been very careless in their behavior. But you did reach a conclusion in that case that it was not necessary to further pursue her. Yet, at the same time, in the case of Mr. Comey, you said that there was not enough information to make a conclusion. Tell me the difference between your conclusion as far as former Secretary Clinton is concerned and Mr. Trump…”

McCain went onto press Comey about Clinton, “In other words, we’re complete on the investigation of anything that former Secretary Clinton had to do with a campaign is over and we don’t have to worry about it anymore?”

Comey: “With respect to – I’m a little confused. With respect to Secretary Clinton, we investigated in connection with her use of a personal email server.”

And back and forth they went, ultimately confusing not just Comey, but others around the country….

In a subsequent statement, McCain blamed confusion on the comments he made at Thursday’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, which caused an instant commotion on Twitter, on — wait for it — staying up too late watching the Arizona Diamondbacks play baseball. (There’s a Padres joke in here somewhere, but this season, it seems there’s always a Padre joke.)

McCain was given the opportunity to question Comey during the Senate intelligence committee’s hearing but jumped straight into talking about Comey and the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton instead. That investigation was closed in July of 2016.

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McCain, in a rambling line of questioning that he sought to clarify first in a televised interview and then in his released statement, was trying to point out that Comey was willing to form an opinion about Clinton’s case but not on the current investigation.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) discusses his questioning of former FBI Director James Comey before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“In the case of Secretary Clinton’s emails, Mr. Comey was willing to step beyond his role as an investigator and state his belief about what ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would conclude about the evidence,” McCain’s released statement said. “I wanted Mr. Comey to apply the same approach to the key question surrounding his interactions with President Trump—whether or not the President’s conduct constitutes obstruction of justice.”

McCain maintains that, though he was misunderstood in the hearing, he still thinks “this is an important question.”

All people watching could talk about, though, was how confused they were.